New Delhi: The first meeting of the BJP Delhi unit’s core group held on Saturday evening to stratagise on the Lok Sabha polls ended in a whimper with two of its MPs giving it a miss while some others reaching at the last minute. The first such meeting presided over by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharama, who has been appointed party’s election in-charge in the national capital, raised questions about the “seriousness” of the senior party leaders.
Party sources told IANS that North-West Delhi’s MP Udit Raj and senior party leader and Union Minister Vijay Goel skipped the meeting while state BJP chief Manoj Tiwari reached minutes before Sitharaman was about to conclude her speech. The sources said the party’s West Delhi MP Pravesh Verma arrived for the meeting after it had already ended.
Besides Sithraman, the meeting was attended by co-incharge Jaibhan Singh Pawaiya, state ‘Prabhari’ Shyam Jaju, ‘sah-Prabhari’ Tarun Chugh and other members of the core group that included other party MPs. There are 16 members in the state core group. Although, Vijay Goel, the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, is a Rajya Sabha member from Rajasthan, he keeps himself occupied with Delhi politics and state party affairs.
